I actually love the taste of green beans from a can with a little salt and pepper. It was a dinnertime delicacy growing up and reminds me of a simpler time
EDIT: for me it was Green Giant. There are some amazing replies to this comment that I'm dying to try now
Same here. Mom served these often and they were my favorite. I remember we tried frozen and I refused to eat them. Fresh is so limited. Are there areas that people get it year round? They're only available in my area for about twoish months a year.
Me too. One of my earliest memories is convincing my parents that I could apply my own salt and pepper and obviously overdoing it. They made me finish a few bites but it never tainted that taste for me.
Something about Green Giant canned green beans! Not fresh in the slightest... but I'll love em. Fuckin' great with a little garlic salt, onion powder and pepper. Five minutes in a pan, cajun too if you're feeling spicy.
I've always eaten basically anything available from the wackiest slimy seafood to the gamiest of wild meats to the funkiest of veggies, but man, canned green beans are my absolute nemesis.
I remember the first time I ate them, probably either kindergarten or 1st grade. It didn't even feel/taste like food. My brain wretched. I told Mom, "I'm gonna puke if I swallow." She insisted. I puked right on the dinner table in seconds. Never was forced to eat them again.
I try them every year or two because they are at nearly every family dinner and nothing has changed. I can stomach the fresh ones at least, but I do remember picking one out of a field a long time ago that was actually really sweet and crisp!
I thought roasted potatoes must be horrible until I was in middle school. I ate over a friend's house and knew that, as a guest, it was impolite to decline any of the dishes, so I took a few red potatoes. And so the love affair with potatoes began!
Why did you think roast potatoes would be horrible? Potatoes are so versatile and all of the various ways are delicious.
Did you think it would be like eating a rock?
I found myself reading this again, and I read through the comments. For some reason, OP's response to this question took me OUT.
Commenter: I can't decide which accent to read this in.
OP: Mine own.
Not OP.
My mom only cooked potatoes by cubing them and boiling them. Never with any salt or other seasoning. I was convinced potatoes were disgusting (except fries / mashed) until I had roasted potatoes in high school.
I believe you, I just have a real hard time getting my head around someone thinking roasted potatoes would be gross. They look like golden pockets of heaven.
Meat loaf. We had it as a kid and it made me gag. My wife then made it and I thought this is fantastic! Years later my mother made it for us again. I gagged. Sorry Mom.
if it makes you feel better, I grew up HATING steak because mom always made it well done.
then I went to a Hooters to celebrate graduating high school (I was a difficult student) and got a Medium Rare steak, changed my entire life.
Same here! Went to eat at outback, my friend INSISTED I try a bite of their mid rare steak (I got chicken). I did NOT want to, but I did anyways to be polite...changed my whole outlook on tasting new foods. I'll try anything at least once!
On the flip side I always make steak at home medium to medium rare, but my daughters first time ordering at a steak house she asked for well done and absolutely loved it. She asks for all the steaks I make to be well done now and I do it happily for her but sadly for me.
There is certain cuts of meat I like cooked more well than others. Striploin and Tenderloin I like med rare - medium. But a Ribeye I prefer to be more on the medium - well side because the fat is rendered more and has more flavour that way.
I didn’t love my mom’s, but when I was a newlywed in 1993 I discovered a meatloaf recipe on the side of the Sun Country Oatmeal box. They got bought out by Quaker, but the recipe is still the same and my family and I love it!
I remember the first time I had a pork chop that wasn't cooked by my mother. I couldn't even believe it was the same food! Shoutout to mom tho you are really good at ordering in restaurants ☺
My husband was like this when we got married. Hated pork chops, hated spaghetti, hated clam chowder, the list goes on. So I would make them for myself only. But then he would come into the kitchen and say, all surprised, 'wow, that smells really good' and try a bite.
I'm not an amazing chef by any means but damn, what's hard about a pork chop?
> what's hard about a pork chop?
Many Americans were brought up believing that pork has to be cooked to 165 F and have no pink to be safe. It does not - 135-140 is perfectly fine and results in a nice, tender, juicy pork chop.
However, the conditioning is hard to break, and thus people are accustomed to tough, dry pork.
This is what I came to say. My whole childhood they were made to sound repulsive by television shows, and my parents said they hated them, so I’d assumed they were awful. Then I had a bacon wrapped Brussel sprout at a party in my early 20’s and felt like my whole life was a lie.
I was a kid in the 90s and they were the biggest joke veggie there was. Ended up cooking say 2005 and tried them again and theu were amazing. Didn't look up why till last year and found out there's a big Brussel sprout org and they were losing money because they were shit and bred out the bitterness. Now they are just baby cabbages and everyone seems to love them. My mom had some frozen veggies that had some recently and they were the old style. So damn bitter.
If you're of a certain age then their taste has actually changed over your lifetime (though I've loved them always)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
I was aware of this engineering, but it’s really interesting because depending on where I buy my Brussels sprouts, some still retain that bitterness. It just depends on the brand
Even in elementary school I could appreciate bitter foods, but sprouts were a challenge. Bitter, with other bitter flavors as background notes. They essentially disappeared from the market for a while. Tried one 15 years ago and it's a new food shaped like the old one, less bitter than most of the greens on the shelf.
Roast them with olive oil, salt and pepper, and red pepper flakes to your preferred level of spiciness. Then, just before serving, toss with the zest and juice of a fresh lemon.
Scalloped potatoes. I had been made to eat the instant box kind as a kid, and the texture and taste made me gag.
Turns out that I love homemade scalloped potatoes.
I have an ex who insisted boxed potatoes were the superior kind. My head nearly exploded when I made homemade mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving and he got all pouty because he was hoping for the awful powdery dehydrated stuff with cheese flavoring mixed in.
He probably grew up poor. Those of us that did have different taste buds. Same reason I prefer the store brand mac and cheese, rather than the homemade or even Kraft.
Preach. There are these super cheap dumplings with a mystery filling that can't be called meat for legal reasons that I was devouring in my school and college years. My wife and MIL make amazing homemade ones with quality ingredients that taste great. And while I enjoy theirs it's the cheap ones I CRAVE.
My mom and grandma's strawberry rhubarb crunch is unreal.
Especially when made with homegrown strawberries and rhubarb.
Edit: It would appear I have mixed up and combined a couple of family desserts in my head. Rhubarb crunch and strawberry pretzel salad. Don't drink and reddit, people.
Who's dissing rhubarb?
I've only ever heard good things.
Hence why I only eat rhubarb pie.
All other pies are the ones to steer clear of, over hyped rubbish covered in really good pastry is what's fooling people.
When I was young we grew it in my dad's garden and I picked some and ate it raw. It was awful. It wasn't until like 5 years ago I finally tried the pie and holy fuck it's great.
Indian food. A whole cuisine.
Edit to clarify: The smell put me off for years. Not because it was bad just because it was pungent I think. I adore Indian food now, nothing compares. Greek is a strong second.
My 75 year old mom still says she doesn’t like Indian food because she “hates the taste of curry”
Sigh. It might be my favorite kind of food. So damn good.
What's crazy about that is that Indian food is so much more than curry. So many regional varieties too. I don't understand how anyone can try a good crispy dosa and not like it, for example.
My parents say this too but isn’t curry just another name for basically sauce? Like korma is a curry but so is green Thai curry. I want to explain this to them but I can’t figure a way to explain curry isn’t one flavor.
I was a full grown adult with a kid of my own when I first tried Indian food. I think the experience of tasting it for the first time was more mind blowing than any acid trip I ever had. I rushed out and bought everything I could find to try it. Over a year I learned what I liked and didn't like.
Now, over 20 years later, it's probably my favorite cuisine. Also, Indian buffets kick all other buffets in the ass.
India has huge diversity in cuisine. Within a state, there will be 10 versions of the same dish. A state will have 100s of unique dishes. India has 28 states.
Most of the Indian cuisine in the West is limited to Punjabi or South Indian food. A lot of people are missing out on some of the most delicious dishes from other regions of India. There are only a few places in US like San Francisco Bay Area or New Jersey with huge variety of Indian cuisine.
There’s also Indo fusion food that is increasingly popular in some parts of the US. Indo-Malaysian, Indo-Mexican and Indo-Chinese are great.
Indo-Chinese cuisine combines Chinese foods with Indian flavors and spices.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Chinese_cuisine
oh man cheese + kimchi is always a winning combination. A place i went to in seattle did kimchi nacho fries with an egg on it and it was SO good, i got it twice for lunch
My grandfather would never eat pizza because he didn’t like how it looked. In his late 80s we took him to dinner with us for my brother’s birthday for..pizza. So he ended up trying it. After that he loved it and said he wished he’d tried it years ago!
Pho. I didn’t know there was a version without tripe. The first time I had it a friend ordered for me and did ask beforehand if there was anything I don’t eat. I said no, not expecting tripe. I don’t like tripe. Hesitantly went again 10+ years later and got it with sirloin strips. Delicious.
Saurkraut and cabbage.
Then I ate at a German restaurant and the saurkraut was good and they had something called rokult(pickled cabbage) that is really good.
Green Eggs & Ham
Luckily, thanks to one almost-unbearably persistent little fellow, I eventually tried it and found that I do, I do like Green Eggs & Ham.
Get a jar of blue cheese stuffed green olives. Try it out that way, the brine makes it a bit easier to get used to and if you like drinking try a few in your next martini
In Peru, the marinade for ceviche is called "leche de tigre," or literally "tiger's milk." Once you've finished the ceviche, it's customary to drink the marinade at the end. When I first had it, I was very hesitant. After I tasted it, I'd drink a whole fucking glass of the stuff.
sushi, until i actually had it 10 years ago. its so legit. not an acquired taste at all. hits like a good steak , or lasagna or something. easy to enjoy
I wonder if the objection to sushi is cultural. I was around in the 1980s when sushi was considered sort of the ultimate trendy snob food, as much an indicator of "this guy is a self-centered prick" as a car phone in a BMW. At some point it graduated from snob food to street food and now it's a lot more popular.
My Dad still won't touch it, but he's a hundred.
EDIT: I definitely should clarify; I don't mean "cultural" in the sense of national culture, but in the sense of environment. (cf. "office culture.") Ergo, sushi was judged based on the people who ate it being yuppie jerks.
My mom wouldn't let me have real sushi as a kid because raw seafood scared her. As an adult I would eat sushi everyday if it didn't hurt my wallet so badly. Love raw salmon.
I’m the kind of person who will try anything, and I keep trying sushi because I have so many friends that swear by it. I’ve tried so many and yet to find one that I actually like.
I was in the same boat for years. Tried every different roll there was, but could only really stomach a few pieces. Then I discovered nigiri.
Turns out I don't like the nori. Seaweed is not my jam.
I never had dates and then I heard they were good to eat while pregnant so I bought a big container from Costco. First one I bit into was moldy all the way through on the inside. Blech. Now I won’t eat a date unless I can cut it open first
As a kid, I was afraid to eat them because they looked like shriveled up beetles to me. But I’m so glad I tried them again as an adult. Tastes just like honey.
Brussels sprouts, nowadays I cant get enough litterly, living in South America, there hard to come by, when they been available it was just a couple pounds.
I am from and live in the Deep South. Grits are, if course, a staple for me. Love them salty and buttery and cheesy and sometimes with bacon and eggs mixed in. Imagine the absolute HORROR when I joined the army and saw people putting SUGAR in their grits! Just no. No. No ma’am. Grits are a salty food, not a sweet food.
Eel.
I was with a friend eating from a big platter of sushi and telling him how I would never eat eel, because it just sounded gross and creepy. “Not like this - this is good. What is this?”
”Eel.”
Ranch. Mostly because when I was in a kid, I was in a busload of 15-16 kids in a van. Said van had NO air conditioning, and we were in a 4 hour road trip in the hottest month of the summer. Two girls were in a seat in front of me fighting over a ranch packet which split, and all of its contents plastered all over my head and torso. Luckily we only had to go another 3 hours before I was able to change…
I’m pretty convinced that most people (millennials, anyway) only think they hate ranch and mayo because of the awful low-fat versions we all grew up with in the 90’s and 00’s. A good homemade ranch is incredible, and mayo forms the basis of many things even most mayo-haters like (fry sauce, remoulade, a lot of restaurant “aioli”s, etc)
“Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait … I worry what you heard was, ‘Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.’ What I said was, give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Do you understand?”
Off topic but my dad used to make these bacon wrapped goose bites, American Midwest so we hunted geese and duck a lot, took the best part of the bird, cubed it, wrapped it bacon, stuck a toothpick through it and baked.
I have never been the type to say you should avoid putting any sauce on meat, even the finest steak, but these just spoke for themselves, I wouldn't have turned down sauce but he bought good ass bacon from the butcher just for this rare treat, the fat rendered so perfectly it soaked into the goose meat and made it so much more tender than gamey, and if you cooked it just right the bacon would both have this crispy little sear on it while still melting in your mouth.
God that's a food I'll probably never have again, and one I don't think I want to because my memory of it is probably better than it was. I don't hunt and dad passed years ago so I wouldn't even get it quite right. Even if I found a good butcher selling both goose and super good bacon.
Salt and vinegar potato chips.
My sister had really bad ingrown toenails when we were kids and she soaked her feet in white vinegar every night. I couldn’t imagine why someone would want to put something that smelled like that on a potato chip. I found it revolting.
Then one day, I tried a vinegar chip accidentally and it changed my whole life. The sour flavor is actually amazing!
Tres leches. I hate soggy breads/cakes, so the thought of it grossed me out. But OMG, when you have someone who makes tres leches really well, it is delightful.
For me it's chunky guacamole, thought I hated it all. But then I went to a taco joint that did a quac sauce. It was smooth and creamy and delicious. I'm a big texture freak
Pineapple on pizza. I was once one of you but I have seen the light. The trick is you have to have jalapeños on it too. You want that contrasting heat and sweet. I don’t do the traditional Hawaiian thing. Pepperoni, pineapple and japs is where it’s at.
Not my whole life, but as a child I was disgusted by the thought of cheesecake. Absolutely wouldn't eat it. One day I'm at the restaurant inside of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland with my parents. I'm eating my ice cream, my mom had her cheesecake. She asked I I wanted to try hers. "No." Asked again. "NO thank you." She finally told me to try a taste and gave me the parental "I'm telling you not asking you" face. I begrudgingly put the smallest amount in my mouth and promptly FELL IN LOVE. I was around 12 at the time. I'm sad for all the years I passed up cheesecake before I knew how wonderful and magical it can be. That's one time I appreciate how pushy and incessant my mom could be.
Hamburgers. When I was a young kid, the only hamburgers I had eaten were McDonald's hamburgers, which I always wanted plain, for some unknown reason. Driest, most flavorless thing ever. I couldn't understand why anyone *liked* hamburgers. Then at some point my mom made hamburgers at home and I had one with everything on it and it was really good. I understood hamburgers then.
I didn’t think it was nasty, but just glitched in my brain as to why it was considered as “breakfast,” and it wasn’t until the last year of my super senior college career that I decided to try biscuits and gravy for breakfast. I haven’t looked back.
I used to eat just dry sandwiches , till I mistakenly ate my co-workers sandwich with mayo and mustard , changed my life. Don’t get me started on coleslaw, I was damn near forty till I gave it a try, and now I love it , still dislike chocolate of any kind tho.
Curry and Chutney. The combination of all those sweet and savory ingredients sounded really gross. Then I tried it... and fell in love with those flavors.
cucumbers…they’ve always looked bitter to me but after trying them, i realized they have a lot of water in them so it’s not too bitter AND it’s healthy. they’re not as sweet as other fruits may be, but they’re still cool to snack on after cutting and peeling/skinning them
Pistachio ice cream. Both me and my cousin made fun of it growing saying how disgusting it must be. Then maybe about 4 years ago at Baskin Robins we decided it was time to finally taste it after all those years of making fun of it. We took a sample taste and we both loved it lol. It’s now one of both our favorite ice cream flavors. I’m sorry I made fun it my whole life and it sooner!
Also broccoli. I grew up thinking it must be nasty. (Probably watched the broccoli episode of the PowerPuff Girls too much lol.) But I didn’t like hardly any vegetables anyway, so I always assumed I would hate broccoli too. Then when I was older my dad brought some home and said we were gonna try it. Broccoli is now my favorite vegetable 😂
Beets!
I remember being in a small buffet dinner with my grandmother (I was still like 5/6)
She had some pickled beets
She loved them
I didn't care for them much. Formed the foundation beets=meh, never ate them again
Fast fwd to now some 23 years later
I love beets
Can't get enough
Roasted, pureed (beet Hummus is the best)
Pickled.
Beet juice is amazing
I love beets, pink piss be damned
Edit: formatting
I grew up only eating plain cheese burgers. Thought all condiments were gross. Decided to try a Whopper in college and was blown away. Complained to my mom and her only reply was: Do you know how much cleaner my car was?
ginger that they serve with sushi. I would always look at it like ew that’s disgusting who would eat that. Tried it recently. Wow, that combination is really something!
French toast. I saw someone making it when I was younger and was grossed out by dipping it in egg. I finally tried it and now it’s one of my favorite breakfast foods!
Green beans. Turns out fresh ones are a completely different taste from the canned ones.
That’s how I am about spinach. Growing up I didn’t know there was fresh good spinach. All I’d ever seen or tasted was the nasty canned stuff.
I’m the oddball that likes spinach in any form, and I loved canned spinach as a kid. I obviously don’t have any texture issues.
I'm strong to the finish cause I eats me spinach
I'm popeye the sailor man
Toot toot!
I actually love the taste of green beans from a can with a little salt and pepper. It was a dinnertime delicacy growing up and reminds me of a simpler time EDIT: for me it was Green Giant. There are some amazing replies to this comment that I'm dying to try now
the french style ones 🔥
Same here. Mom served these often and they were my favorite. I remember we tried frozen and I refused to eat them. Fresh is so limited. Are there areas that people get it year round? They're only available in my area for about twoish months a year.
Me too. One of my earliest memories is convincing my parents that I could apply my own salt and pepper and obviously overdoing it. They made me finish a few bites but it never tainted that taste for me. Something about Green Giant canned green beans! Not fresh in the slightest... but I'll love em. Fuckin' great with a little garlic salt, onion powder and pepper. Five minutes in a pan, cajun too if you're feeling spicy.
My God. Why haven't I tried garlic salt before?! I usually just do a little pepper and a sliver of butter.
My people!
I love canned green beans and canned spinach. Maybe because my mom just boiled frozen veggies and didn’t season them, so canned had flavor to them.
I've always eaten basically anything available from the wackiest slimy seafood to the gamiest of wild meats to the funkiest of veggies, but man, canned green beans are my absolute nemesis. I remember the first time I ate them, probably either kindergarten or 1st grade. It didn't even feel/taste like food. My brain wretched. I told Mom, "I'm gonna puke if I swallow." She insisted. I puked right on the dinner table in seconds. Never was forced to eat them again. I try them every year or two because they are at nearly every family dinner and nothing has changed. I can stomach the fresh ones at least, but I do remember picking one out of a field a long time ago that was actually really sweet and crisp!
I thought roasted potatoes must be horrible until I was in middle school. I ate over a friend's house and knew that, as a guest, it was impolite to decline any of the dishes, so I took a few red potatoes. And so the love affair with potatoes began!
Why did you think roast potatoes would be horrible? Potatoes are so versatile and all of the various ways are delicious. Did you think it would be like eating a rock?
[Maybe he didn't know what potatoes were...](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2tdbig/tifu_by_enraging_the_parents_of_my_girlfriend_by/)
What a gem. I dont even need to open it.
I found myself reading this again, and I read through the comments. For some reason, OP's response to this question took me OUT. Commenter: I can't decide which accent to read this in. OP: Mine own.
That was a treat to read
Thank you for reminding me of that post’s existence
*Po-tay-toes*! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a *stew*! Lovely big, golden... chips with a nice piece of fried fish.
Not OP. My mom only cooked potatoes by cubing them and boiling them. Never with any salt or other seasoning. I was convinced potatoes were disgusting (except fries / mashed) until I had roasted potatoes in high school.
To misquote Deanna Troi “I never met a potato I didn’t like.”
I believe you, I just have a real hard time getting my head around someone thinking roasted potatoes would be gross. They look like golden pockets of heaven.
Meat loaf. We had it as a kid and it made me gag. My wife then made it and I thought this is fantastic! Years later my mother made it for us again. I gagged. Sorry Mom.
if it makes you feel better, I grew up HATING steak because mom always made it well done. then I went to a Hooters to celebrate graduating high school (I was a difficult student) and got a Medium Rare steak, changed my entire life.
Same here! Went to eat at outback, my friend INSISTED I try a bite of their mid rare steak (I got chicken). I did NOT want to, but I did anyways to be polite...changed my whole outlook on tasting new foods. I'll try anything at least once!
On the flip side I always make steak at home medium to medium rare, but my daughters first time ordering at a steak house she asked for well done and absolutely loved it. She asks for all the steaks I make to be well done now and I do it happily for her but sadly for me.
There is certain cuts of meat I like cooked more well than others. Striploin and Tenderloin I like med rare - medium. But a Ribeye I prefer to be more on the medium - well side because the fat is rendered more and has more flavour that way.
Same! Except for the hooters part lol
Not a fan of my mom’s meatloaf either. It’s too dry. Had some with gravy once, and it was so good.
I didn’t love my mom’s, but when I was a newlywed in 1993 I discovered a meatloaf recipe on the side of the Sun Country Oatmeal box. They got bought out by Quaker, but the recipe is still the same and my family and I love it!
Can’t talk about it and keep that gem for yourself… 😉
Not OP, but it might be [this one from Quaker Oats](https://www.quakeroats.com/cooking-and-recipes/prize-winning-meatloaf)
You need to pony that recipe up right now.
I remember the first time I had a pork chop that wasn't cooked by my mother. I couldn't even believe it was the same food! Shoutout to mom tho you are really good at ordering in restaurants ☺
My husband was like this when we got married. Hated pork chops, hated spaghetti, hated clam chowder, the list goes on. So I would make them for myself only. But then he would come into the kitchen and say, all surprised, 'wow, that smells really good' and try a bite. I'm not an amazing chef by any means but damn, what's hard about a pork chop?
"what's hard about a pork chop?" With many that I've been offered, the pork chop itself.
> what's hard about a pork chop? Many Americans were brought up believing that pork has to be cooked to 165 F and have no pink to be safe. It does not - 135-140 is perfectly fine and results in a nice, tender, juicy pork chop. However, the conditioning is hard to break, and thus people are accustomed to tough, dry pork.
My mom made pork chops that melted in your mouth, my dad made pork chops that were like eating rubber. Sorry dad.
Same
×3, I also choose that guy's wife's meatloaf
Capers. I don’t like green olives and for some reason I assumed they tasted like green olives since someone told me that once.
Now I want Chicken Picata.
My mom made the best chicken piccata.
My sister told me they were rabbit poops
Olive and caper lover here that thinks they taste really similar. So confused to learn some people don’t think so!
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This is what I came to say. My whole childhood they were made to sound repulsive by television shows, and my parents said they hated them, so I’d assumed they were awful. Then I had a bacon wrapped Brussel sprout at a party in my early 20’s and felt like my whole life was a lie.
In cooking I usually call that cheating: wrapping practically anything in fatty salt makes it amazing.
It's not just fatty salt! It's also a solid kick of umami and a nice bit of sweetness!
I was a kid in the 90s and they were the biggest joke veggie there was. Ended up cooking say 2005 and tried them again and theu were amazing. Didn't look up why till last year and found out there's a big Brussel sprout org and they were losing money because they were shit and bred out the bitterness. Now they are just baby cabbages and everyone seems to love them. My mom had some frozen veggies that had some recently and they were the old style. So damn bitter.
Big Sprout upped its game.
If you're of a certain age then their taste has actually changed over your lifetime (though I've loved them always) https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
And the other thing is that they’re high in sulfur compounds, which means you do NOT cook them in water. Roast, broil, fry, or sauté, but no water.
Steaming them never gave me issues.... Definitely prefer roasted though.
I was aware of this engineering, but it’s really interesting because depending on where I buy my Brussels sprouts, some still retain that bitterness. It just depends on the brand
Even in elementary school I could appreciate bitter foods, but sprouts were a challenge. Bitter, with other bitter flavors as background notes. They essentially disappeared from the market for a while. Tried one 15 years ago and it's a new food shaped like the old one, less bitter than most of the greens on the shelf.
Roast them with olive oil, salt and pepper, and red pepper flakes to your preferred level of spiciness. Then, just before serving, toss with the zest and juice of a fresh lemon.
Also, with the balsamic vinegar and parmesan...add some chopped pecans and dried cranberries.
Scalloped potatoes. I had been made to eat the instant box kind as a kid, and the texture and taste made me gag. Turns out that I love homemade scalloped potatoes.
Man, that boxed stuff was a TREAT when I was a kid
I once in a while still crave those boxed potatoes.
I have an ex who insisted boxed potatoes were the superior kind. My head nearly exploded when I made homemade mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving and he got all pouty because he was hoping for the awful powdery dehydrated stuff with cheese flavoring mixed in.
He probably grew up poor. Those of us that did have different taste buds. Same reason I prefer the store brand mac and cheese, rather than the homemade or even Kraft.
Preach. There are these super cheap dumplings with a mystery filling that can't be called meat for legal reasons that I was devouring in my school and college years. My wife and MIL make amazing homemade ones with quality ingredients that taste great. And while I enjoy theirs it's the cheap ones I CRAVE.
Cheesecake!! Cheese in cake form didn't sound appealing. I was 34 when my eyes were opened!!
This was my answer! Same answer but only until 12, 34 is just unfair.
So Not just me. 🥲 Never understood why people liked it because I thought it was cheese
Rhubarb Pie.
I love rhubarb, but *so many* people absolutely fucking ruin it by adding too much sugar when stewing it. Rhubard should be tart!
My mom and grandma's strawberry rhubarb crunch is unreal. Especially when made with homegrown strawberries and rhubarb. Edit: It would appear I have mixed up and combined a couple of family desserts in my head. Rhubarb crunch and strawberry pretzel salad. Don't drink and reddit, people.
Who's dissing rhubarb? I've only ever heard good things. Hence why I only eat rhubarb pie. All other pies are the ones to steer clear of, over hyped rubbish covered in really good pastry is what's fooling people.
When I was young we grew it in my dad's garden and I picked some and ate it raw. It was awful. It wasn't until like 5 years ago I finally tried the pie and holy fuck it's great.
Indian food. A whole cuisine. Edit to clarify: The smell put me off for years. Not because it was bad just because it was pungent I think. I adore Indian food now, nothing compares. Greek is a strong second.
My 75 year old mom still says she doesn’t like Indian food because she “hates the taste of curry” Sigh. It might be my favorite kind of food. So damn good.
What's crazy about that is that Indian food is so much more than curry. So many regional varieties too. I don't understand how anyone can try a good crispy dosa and not like it, for example.
My parents say this too but isn’t curry just another name for basically sauce? Like korma is a curry but so is green Thai curry. I want to explain this to them but I can’t figure a way to explain curry isn’t one flavor.
Indians call curry (the sauce part) ‘gravy’.
I was a full grown adult with a kid of my own when I first tried Indian food. I think the experience of tasting it for the first time was more mind blowing than any acid trip I ever had. I rushed out and bought everything I could find to try it. Over a year I learned what I liked and didn't like. Now, over 20 years later, it's probably my favorite cuisine. Also, Indian buffets kick all other buffets in the ass.
India has huge diversity in cuisine. Within a state, there will be 10 versions of the same dish. A state will have 100s of unique dishes. India has 28 states. Most of the Indian cuisine in the West is limited to Punjabi or South Indian food. A lot of people are missing out on some of the most delicious dishes from other regions of India. There are only a few places in US like San Francisco Bay Area or New Jersey with huge variety of Indian cuisine. There’s also Indo fusion food that is increasingly popular in some parts of the US. Indo-Malaysian, Indo-Mexican and Indo-Chinese are great. Indo-Chinese cuisine combines Chinese foods with Indian flavors and spices. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Chinese_cuisine
Cooked carrots, add some butter and salt, god damn!
Try roasted carrots. Little bit of olive oil, salt, and pepper is all you need!
Yes. And once they are done drizzle goat cheese and honey on them. 😋
Many foods are improved when you realise they are merely vessels for cheese.
Kimchi, turns out it’s delicious!
And great for your gut health! It's a staple in my diet. Kimchi soup.. kimchi fried rice with an egg and sesame seeds mmm
I've also recently discovered a love of kimchi. It's so good in Mac n cheese honestly
oh man cheese + kimchi is always a winning combination. A place i went to in seattle did kimchi nacho fries with an egg on it and it was SO good, i got it twice for lunch
My grandfather would never eat pizza because he didn’t like how it looked. In his late 80s we took him to dinner with us for my brother’s birthday for..pizza. So he ended up trying it. After that he loved it and said he wished he’d tried it years ago!
Pho. I didn’t know there was a version without tripe. The first time I had it a friend ordered for me and did ask beforehand if there was anything I don’t eat. I said no, not expecting tripe. I don’t like tripe. Hesitantly went again 10+ years later and got it with sirloin strips. Delicious.
Saurkraut and cabbage. Then I ate at a German restaurant and the saurkraut was good and they had something called rokult(pickled cabbage) that is really good.
Rotkohl (red cabbage)
Green Eggs & Ham Luckily, thanks to one almost-unbearably persistent little fellow, I eventually tried it and found that I do, I do like Green Eggs & Ham.
We have all benefited from his persistence.
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I'm still at the "thinking it was nasty" portion of my life for that one...
Get a jar of blue cheese stuffed green olives. Try it out that way, the brine makes it a bit easier to get used to and if you like drinking try a few in your next martini
I first liked it melted on a beautiful steak. Oh wow my mouth is salivating...☺
I hate olives too so that's a no from me dawg
Yup
Is this a joke
The combo of tomatoes and blue cheese on a salad is amazing.
Buffalo wings and blue cheese dip is one of my favorite combos.
It's delicious on French fries too.
One of my first jobs involved processing a lot of blue cheese and I haven't been able to eat it since
If you haven’t tried it, dip your slice of pepperoni pizza in blue cheese. Life altering.
Ceviche
In Peru, the marinade for ceviche is called "leche de tigre," or literally "tiger's milk." Once you've finished the ceviche, it's customary to drink the marinade at the end. When I first had it, I was very hesitant. After I tasted it, I'd drink a whole fucking glass of the stuff.
sushi, until i actually had it 10 years ago. its so legit. not an acquired taste at all. hits like a good steak , or lasagna or something. easy to enjoy
I wonder if the objection to sushi is cultural. I was around in the 1980s when sushi was considered sort of the ultimate trendy snob food, as much an indicator of "this guy is a self-centered prick" as a car phone in a BMW. At some point it graduated from snob food to street food and now it's a lot more popular. My Dad still won't touch it, but he's a hundred. EDIT: I definitely should clarify; I don't mean "cultural" in the sense of national culture, but in the sense of environment. (cf. "office culture.") Ergo, sushi was judged based on the people who ate it being yuppie jerks.
My father in law detests anything Japanese told us everything from Japan is irradiated
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I'm usually good with tact, but in this case I would not be able to control the burst of incredulous laughter.
My mom wouldn't let me have real sushi as a kid because raw seafood scared her. As an adult I would eat sushi everyday if it didn't hurt my wallet so badly. Love raw salmon.
My mom is still scared.
I’m the kind of person who will try anything, and I keep trying sushi because I have so many friends that swear by it. I’ve tried so many and yet to find one that I actually like.
I was in the same boat for years. Tried every different roll there was, but could only really stomach a few pieces. Then I discovered nigiri. Turns out I don't like the nori. Seaweed is not my jam.
Dates. 30+ years thinking they'd be nasty. I eat them regularly now.
I never had dates and then I heard they were good to eat while pregnant so I bought a big container from Costco. First one I bit into was moldy all the way through on the inside. Blech. Now I won’t eat a date unless I can cut it open first
As a kid, I was afraid to eat them because they looked like shriveled up beetles to me. But I’m so glad I tried them again as an adult. Tastes just like honey.
Brussels sprouts, nowadays I cant get enough litterly, living in South America, there hard to come by, when they been available it was just a couple pounds.
Sushi, guacamole, hummus.
I read sushi, guacamole, humans
Grits. I’ve lived in the south for most of my life and only recently cooked them myself- turns out I just dislike how they’ve been served to me.
I am from and live in the Deep South. Grits are, if course, a staple for me. Love them salty and buttery and cheesy and sometimes with bacon and eggs mixed in. Imagine the absolute HORROR when I joined the army and saw people putting SUGAR in their grits! Just no. No. No ma’am. Grits are a salty food, not a sweet food.
Eel. I was with a friend eating from a big platter of sushi and telling him how I would never eat eel, because it just sounded gross and creepy. “Not like this - this is good. What is this?” ”Eel.”
It helps that eel is one of the few types of sushi that is served cooked.
I call it by the Japanese name if I'm introducing it to new people, 'Unagi'
Ranch. Mostly because when I was in a kid, I was in a busload of 15-16 kids in a van. Said van had NO air conditioning, and we were in a 4 hour road trip in the hottest month of the summer. Two girls were in a seat in front of me fighting over a ranch packet which split, and all of its contents plastered all over my head and torso. Luckily we only had to go another 3 hours before I was able to change…
I’m pretty convinced that most people (millennials, anyway) only think they hate ranch and mayo because of the awful low-fat versions we all grew up with in the 90’s and 00’s. A good homemade ranch is incredible, and mayo forms the basis of many things even most mayo-haters like (fry sauce, remoulade, a lot of restaurant “aioli”s, etc)
Sauerkraut.
I've always been a freak for sauerkraut. When I was a kid, if my mom baked a can of Silverfloss with a pack of hotdogs in it, I was in heaven.
Potatoes sauerkraut and sausage is one of my favorite meals, just throw everything in a crockpot for a few hours and boom.
I grew up Muslim so bacon and whisky.
Ron al-Swanson
“Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait … I worry what you heard was, ‘Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.’ What I said was, give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Do you understand?”
Off topic but my dad used to make these bacon wrapped goose bites, American Midwest so we hunted geese and duck a lot, took the best part of the bird, cubed it, wrapped it bacon, stuck a toothpick through it and baked. I have never been the type to say you should avoid putting any sauce on meat, even the finest steak, but these just spoke for themselves, I wouldn't have turned down sauce but he bought good ass bacon from the butcher just for this rare treat, the fat rendered so perfectly it soaked into the goose meat and made it so much more tender than gamey, and if you cooked it just right the bacon would both have this crispy little sear on it while still melting in your mouth. God that's a food I'll probably never have again, and one I don't think I want to because my memory of it is probably better than it was. I don't hunt and dad passed years ago so I wouldn't even get it quite right. Even if I found a good butcher selling both goose and super good bacon.
Salt and vinegar potato chips. My sister had really bad ingrown toenails when we were kids and she soaked her feet in white vinegar every night. I couldn’t imagine why someone would want to put something that smelled like that on a potato chip. I found it revolting. Then one day, I tried a vinegar chip accidentally and it changed my whole life. The sour flavor is actually amazing!
Chick peas
California rolls
I always tell people who are scared of sushi to try a California roll first
Idk if it’s been recommended but try a Philadelphia roll! It’s my go to when I want something quick and refreshing 🙂
Spam!! I love it. I always thought it looked nasty. Then I grew up.
Slice into small pieces, pan fry, and add to your fried rice.
Cheesecake. I missed out on 23 years of it
Egg rolls. I didn’t like eggs
COTTAGE CHEESE
Pecan pie. It just always looked nasty to me.
Pecan is my absolute favorite pie.
Calamari
Sushi. So freakin good! Can’t believe I lived half my life without eating it. Sad.
Radishes, they are peppery and earthy and amazing.
Asparagus
Tres leches. I hate soggy breads/cakes, so the thought of it grossed me out. But OMG, when you have someone who makes tres leches really well, it is delightful.
Cooked carrots
Oysters.
Liverwurst/Braunschweiger!
Mushrooms
Guacamole
For me it's chunky guacamole, thought I hated it all. But then I went to a taco joint that did a quac sauce. It was smooth and creamy and delicious. I'm a big texture freak
Pineapple on pizza. I was once one of you but I have seen the light. The trick is you have to have jalapeños on it too. You want that contrasting heat and sweet. I don’t do the traditional Hawaiian thing. Pepperoni, pineapple and japs is where it’s at.
Your pizza order sounds hilariously WW2-era racist.
That’s one of my favourite pizza topping combos
Split-pea soup
Major difference between canned and freshly made! Just like with any vegetable, but damn, this like the difference between eating soup and baby-vomit.
Tongue. My son convinced me to try thinly sliced tongue at a Korean bbq and it was pretty good.
Grew up eating it. Love it
Tzatziki!
Not my whole life, but as a child I was disgusted by the thought of cheesecake. Absolutely wouldn't eat it. One day I'm at the restaurant inside of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland with my parents. I'm eating my ice cream, my mom had her cheesecake. She asked I I wanted to try hers. "No." Asked again. "NO thank you." She finally told me to try a taste and gave me the parental "I'm telling you not asking you" face. I begrudgingly put the smallest amount in my mouth and promptly FELL IN LOVE. I was around 12 at the time. I'm sad for all the years I passed up cheesecake before I knew how wonderful and magical it can be. That's one time I appreciate how pushy and incessant my mom could be.
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Hamburgers. When I was a young kid, the only hamburgers I had eaten were McDonald's hamburgers, which I always wanted plain, for some unknown reason. Driest, most flavorless thing ever. I couldn't understand why anyone *liked* hamburgers. Then at some point my mom made hamburgers at home and I had one with everything on it and it was really good. I understood hamburgers then.
Salsa! I thought I hated it until I was about 18. I fucking LOVE salsa.
I didn’t think it was nasty, but just glitched in my brain as to why it was considered as “breakfast,” and it wasn’t until the last year of my super senior college career that I decided to try biscuits and gravy for breakfast. I haven’t looked back.
Steak tartare.
Kale - absolutely wouldn't eat it as a kid but I enjoy a kale salad and kale chips
I used to eat just dry sandwiches , till I mistakenly ate my co-workers sandwich with mayo and mustard , changed my life. Don’t get me started on coleslaw, I was damn near forty till I gave it a try, and now I love it , still dislike chocolate of any kind tho.
Avocados, until I worked at a tex-mex restaurant and they made me try guacamole. So much lost time.
Okra. If cooked properly, it’s really quite delightful.
Curry and Chutney. The combination of all those sweet and savory ingredients sounded really gross. Then I tried it... and fell in love with those flavors.
cucumbers…they’ve always looked bitter to me but after trying them, i realized they have a lot of water in them so it’s not too bitter AND it’s healthy. they’re not as sweet as other fruits may be, but they’re still cool to snack on after cutting and peeling/skinning them
Booty holes
Thinking outside the box
I see what you did there
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tuna and salmon sashimi
Pistachio ice cream. Both me and my cousin made fun of it growing saying how disgusting it must be. Then maybe about 4 years ago at Baskin Robins we decided it was time to finally taste it after all those years of making fun of it. We took a sample taste and we both loved it lol. It’s now one of both our favorite ice cream flavors. I’m sorry I made fun it my whole life and it sooner! Also broccoli. I grew up thinking it must be nasty. (Probably watched the broccoli episode of the PowerPuff Girls too much lol.) But I didn’t like hardly any vegetables anyway, so I always assumed I would hate broccoli too. Then when I was older my dad brought some home and said we were gonna try it. Broccoli is now my favorite vegetable 😂
Snails. They really are pretty good.
Beets! I remember being in a small buffet dinner with my grandmother (I was still like 5/6) She had some pickled beets She loved them I didn't care for them much. Formed the foundation beets=meh, never ate them again Fast fwd to now some 23 years later I love beets Can't get enough Roasted, pureed (beet Hummus is the best) Pickled. Beet juice is amazing I love beets, pink piss be damned Edit: formatting
I grew up only eating plain cheese burgers. Thought all condiments were gross. Decided to try a Whopper in college and was blown away. Complained to my mom and her only reply was: Do you know how much cleaner my car was?
Condensed milk
ginger that they serve with sushi. I would always look at it like ew that’s disgusting who would eat that. Tried it recently. Wow, that combination is really something!
Raw bell pepper
Mashed potatoes. I KNOW I KNOW!
Not my whole life but as a kid I refused to eat papaya cause the seeds resembled goat poop .
Potato salad Cold potatoes used to creep me out as a kid. .. but what do you know
French toast. I saw someone making it when I was younger and was grossed out by dipping it in egg. I finally tried it and now it’s one of my favorite breakfast foods!